Few studies have addressed the university-to-work transition experience of international postgraduate students. This paper contributed to the literature as it proposed a three-stage university-to-work transition framework including stages of finishing a degree, looking for a job, and working in a job. A qualitative research design with in-depth…

Responses from 108 Australian, 50 U.S., 39 German, 28 Thai, and 16 Hong Kong human-resource managers examined their views of the hiring process. Differences among the countries appeared in the importance of certain resume and cover-letter components, the preferred length of resumes, and the amount of time spent reading resumes and cover letters.…